The Blog-tember Challenge: Day 4 | Currently in September

Currently in September

Happy Sunday lovelies, I've been up since the crack of dawn today, I just can't seem to sleep in. I've actually booked a few days off work this week just because I have a couple of appointments and plans with friends, and I just pray that I get on sleep in because I know I'll want when when I'm back in work.

I'm super excited about the plans I have this week, they include but aren't limited to a new tattoo, a girly wine day with my closest friend, and visiting my lovely mother!

Reading... Always with Love by Giovanna Fletcher.
Playing... plan for Rome, catch up on sleep, and preparation for this weeks plans.
Watching... Gilmore Girls, although I'm halfway through season 7, BOO!
Trying... to get everything sorted for my holiday to Rome and stop spending so much money.
Cooking... lunch in a few moments, although I'm not sure what.
Eating... nothing as of yet, but lunch will happen after this post is uploaded :)
Drinking... Coke because I'm naughty and couldn't help myself whilst I was at the shop.
Calling... my lovely mother to arrange future plans and just because I miss her like crazy.
Texting... mainly just my mother, I seem to use facebook messenger to connect with most other people.
Pinning... home inspiration and Christmas ideas
Tweeting... about my blog and life in general
Going... to Rome very soon!
Loving... Giovanna Fletcher's books, they are so good!
Hating... that I still have around 8 shifts until it's holiday time.
Discovering... lots and lots of new books and authors!
Thinking... about what's going come from my next hospital appointment
Feeling...  alot better than I have during previous days.
Hoping (for)... Good results, always good results.
Listening (to)... Taylor Swift, it's always TayTay.
Celebrating... the facts that I've been blogging a lot more than usual!
Smelling... nothing actually, I need to get some candles burning.
Ordering... Christmas presents and books, I can't help but order books!
Thanking... my partner for everything that he does for me.
Considering... whether I want a new house or an extended house.
Starting... to wish I wasn't coming to the end of Gilmore Girls!
Finishing... Gilmore Girls

What are you currently up to?

Day Thirty: Au revoir Septembre bonjour Octobre

Sept 30th: A farewell coffee date. Take some time to breath, sip a warm drink, and share with your new blogging buddies. If you'd like a prompt: how did the Blog-tember challenge go for you? Any surprises? What was your favorite prompt, or what would you like to see included next time?

I'm not a coffee lover or even a coffee liker…a nice cuppa would go down a treat though!

I have really enjoyed the blogtember challenge, I'm a bit annoyed at myself for not managing to keep up to date every single day, but I managed to do the majority and I'm happy with how I did with those.

This has been my first blogging challenge and I'm quite happy with how it all went, I can't wait to be involved in many more! 

It's hard to say which prompt was my favourite because they were all amazing in their own way and I have loved every part of this challenge. 

I'd say it's been an eye opener to be honest.

Blogtember has been amazing, until next time, friends!

xo

Day Twenty Eight: September Highs and Lows

Sept 28th: What were your highs and lows for this month?

Highs of September
- Spending a lot of time with my best friend.
- Getting a new tattoo.
- Shows are coming back! It's that time of the year where I don't want to leave my house because there is just too much to watch!
- My Student Finance came in on time!
- I have found myself a new style, it seems to be making me a little happier.
- I went back to University...
- I figured out my plans for my final year project.
- I have Demi Lovato tickets for November!
- I'm in the process of starting my own business with my best friend. 


Lows of September
- My little Hamster, Daisy, passed away.
- I spent a night locked out of my house.
- I went back to University…

It's been a pretty okay month but, it's coming to an end and I'm looking forward to October!

xo

Day Ten: Ten Things I Love About Me...

Sept 10th: List 10 things that you love about yourself! Let's kick that negative self-talk outta here!

I was actually debating skipping this post. I've been siting here for a long while just staring at a blank page, this is by far the hardest post so far. I am constantly at war with myself, there's not that much I like about myself, never mind love about myself. I have tried everyday to love myself, I thought that maybe one day it would just happen. I have vowed to try harder to love myself do things that make me happy, dress in a way that makes me happy and hopefully that positivity will rub off on the way I feel about myself, so I sort of felt like the first step was to take part in this post.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
- Bernard M. Baruch

I'm socially awkward, self conscious and have far too many anxieties to count. 

Ten Things That I Love About Myself

1. My Eyes, I have heterochromia and I spent so long thinking I wasn't normal because of it. Since I've grown up a lot of people actually comment on how much they love my eyes and how jealous they are, it makes me feel quite thankful to be honest. 

2. I'm a good person…everything I do in life is with the best intentions and I would never do anything to hurt anybody, I care a lot about people.

3. My tattoo, although I only have one (for the moment) but ever since getting it I have felt a little bit more confident…people tap me on the shoulder just to tell me how amazing it is, they don't know how happy that makes me feel. 

4. My photography and videography skills. There aren't many things that I believe to be good at but, I know I am good at this, I feel extremely thankful to the first person who introduced me to cameras because I haven't been able to put them down since that moment, and I have progressed so much. 

5. My imagination. I try and escape reality all of the time, I much prefer living in my head…I often get a little lost, believing in fairytales, forgetting what's reality and what's not. I like getting lost in my own imagination. 

6. I crack a mean joke: I find myself funny, most people laugh at how unfunny they find me but, I think I am hilarious… 
"Why did the skeleton go to the party alone?"
"Because he had nobody to go with…"
"Why do daleks eat apples?"
"Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away…"

There's plenty more where that came from!


7. I love my own company. I love nothing more than to spend a night by myself playing on the xbox, watching Netflix, blogging and reading. 

8. My ability to see the good in everything and everyone, this pretty much speaks for itself. No matter who you are, everyone has the ability to be good, they just choose whether to be or not to be.

9. I love my music taste. Whenever I am feeling down I just listen to music and it cheers me up straight away…tell me that these beauty's wouldn't cheer you up!

10. My love of the world and all that's in it. I love the world, I think it's the most beautiful thing that's ever been created, I can't wait to pack up with my camera in my bag and go and explore it. 

It's nice to look at yourself and think about all the positive things, what do you love about yourself?

xo

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Day Six: Currently in September

Sept 6th: A "currently..." post. Tell us what you're loving, hating, reading, eating, etc.

…reading  You're The One That I Want by Giovanna Fletcher! Although I am only a few chapters in to this, I can already tell how much I am going to love this book.

…watching season 2 of Under The Dome, season 8 of Doctor Who and currently waiting for the 10th season of Supernatural to air.

...trying to get myself motivated for university, which starts rather soon now that I think about it. I am really excited to go back, these holidays are so long and boring.

…eating strong mints…I have a huge obsession for strong mints.

…pinning ideas for the home that the boyfriend and myself will be sharing, hopefully very soon.

…tweeting about anything that comes to mind to be honest. My twitter posts are usually quite random.

…going to spend my day editing some beautiful wedding photographs.

…loving how many lay-ins I've had recently. Unfortunately for me though, uni starts soon, so I am going to have to fix my sleeping pattern.

…discovering that I need to take this year seriously and make sure I have fun.

…enjoying the fact that my student loan comes in soon, I have been completely broke for the entirety of the summer period.

...thinking that I really need to tidy my house…I hate tidying.

…feeling rather down, mainly due to the idea of going back to university. 

…hoping that my third year of Uni is less stressful than the rest.

...listening to Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran.

…thanking the universe that I worked so hard last year and made it into my final year of uni.

…starting to understand that distractions in life aren't often a good thing.

What are you currently up to today?

xo

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Day Three: I am Michaelangelo

Sept 3rd: "When I grow up I want to be...." Feel free to answer as your 5-year-old self or as of now.

Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up

I could still be little

Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up

It could still be simple 

If you were to go ahead and ask me this question when I was younger I would say a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (Michaelangelo) or a Pokémon trainer or even a Pokémon! If you were to ask me this question now? The answer would pretty much be the same…

Okay, being serious, if you asked me that question now then there would still be so many things I would say. We spend our whole lives being pestered to figure out what we want to be when we're older, because we got told that all our decisions mattered. The problem with that is kids and teenagers change their minds ALOT and you can't expect us to make this huge decision at 16, to be honest, humans change their minds a lot with everything, so we're going to change our minds with our career aspirations. 

Right at this current moment I want to be a whole array of different things, I fall in love the moment I have a camera in my hands. I'm at war with myself, I have found love in so many places that I can't just stick to one. I love the idea of working with animals, just being a zookeeper could make me the happiest person in the world. I want to travel the world, I'd love to land a career that meant I could do just that. I would love to be a photographer who travels the world, as long as I have my camera and the ability to blog it would be absolute perfection. It's so hard to know what you want to do and to know you'll be happy doing it…you don't know that you'll be happy and isn't happiness going to be the most important thing? 

So to recap…when I grow up I want to be:

- A world traveling photographer

- An amazing camera women/director

- A screenplay writer

- A zookeeper

- Michaelangelo

- A Pokémon Trainer

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Until tomorrow…

xo

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September goals

So, September is finally here! University is about to start again and it's time to get my life back on track.

This is something new for me, something I'm going to try doing every month and naturally I'm going to aim to complete every goal I come up with. 

It's time to start feeling motivated! Time to take action!

September Goals

- Stress less…now this one's going to be hard!

- Photograph a wedding.

- Fix my sleeping pattern.

- Wake up in time for sunrise at least one morning.

- Go back to university for my final year.

- Finish my scriptwriting for my dissertation project.

- Read You're the one that I want by Giovanna Fletcher

- Begin filming my dissertation project.

- Complete the Halo 3 campaign online with friends.

- Get a new tattoo…or two.

- Attend the gym 3 times a week, every week. 

- Have cute date nights with the boyfriend. 

- Keep my room clean!

- Try not to overspend.

- Stay on top of tidying…NO EXCUSES!

- Learn to love myself a little bit.

- Do something that I have never done before.

- Stop with the procrastination.

- Go to all of my uni classes…NO EXCEPTIONS!

- Be happy!

So there's my goals for this month…looking at it now I have written it down makes it seem likes that's a lot to achieve in one month, but I'm going to give it a shot!

What are your September goals?

xo